Compilation
Philenoptera schimperi

Deciduous tree, 3–12 m. tall; bark grey or brownish, becoming rough and flaking; slash producing a blood-red resinous exudate. Young branchlets sparsely puberulous to conspicuously appressed pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves 15–45 cm. long; stipules linear or subulate, up to 2 mm. long, caducous; rhachis of mature leaves prolonged ± 3–6 cm. beyond uppermost pair of lateral leaflets, subglabrous to thinly pubescent; stipels up to 1.5–2 mm. long, caducous; lateral leaflets in 2–3 pairs, narrowly oblong-elliptic or elliptic, 5.4–15(–18) cm. long, 2–5.5 cm. wide, narrowed at either end, sub-coriaceous, greyish to silvery pubescent on both surfaces at first, glabrescent to varying degrees, but generally thinly puberulous beneath at maturity; primary lateral nerves (8–) 10–14 on either side, laxly inserted, prominulous beneath. Panicles precocious or produced with young leaves, aggregated near branch-tips, both terminal and in axils of fallen leaves, erect at first, ultimately pendulous, up to 18–40(–60) cm. long, with numerous relatively short spreading branches; axes pubescent to tomentellous; bracts lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm. long, evanescent; bracteoles at top of 2–5 mm. long pedicel, minute, caducous. Calyx 3.5–5(–6) mm. long, purplish with a short silvery or whitish appressed tomentum; lateral lobes 1–2 mm. long, bluntly pointed. Corolla 9–14 mm. long, pinkish-mauve to deep lilac, with a median white or yellow patch on standard inside; standard broadly ovate, basally auriculate, glabrous. Fruit narrowly elliptic-oblong to linear-oblong, narrowed to the shortly rounded or pointed apex, narrowed to a 4–10 mm. long stipe, slightly sinuate between the seeds, 6–14 cm. long, 1.3–2 cm. wide, reddish-green maturing pale brown, thinly puberulous, glabrescent, 1–3-seeded.